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Michael Maloney: The list above are Gardiner’s poems in her Book “Indian Legends and Other Poems” published in 1855. It is missing “The Dying Year.” I have located 21 additional poems in periodicals and manuscripts and am publishing a critical edition that will include all of her known works. She was a highly gifted 19th-century American Romantic Poet, who, like most women poets at the time, was overlooked due to patriarchal discrimination.

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The Song Of The Mouth-Organ
 by Robert Service

(With apologies to the singer of the “Song of the Banjo”.)

I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone;
I'm beloved by the Legion of the Lost;
I haven't got a “vox humana” tone,
And a dime or two will satisfy my cost.
I don't attempt your high-falutin' flights;
I am more or less uncertain on the key;
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